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Git, invented in 2005. Programmers on 2004: (lemmy.eco.br)
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[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 129 points 6 days ago (29 children)

Before Git, we used SVN (Subversion), and CVS before that. Microsoft shops used TFS or whatever it's called now (or was called in the past)

[โ€“] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 10 points 6 days ago

A place I worked at did it by duplicating and modifying a function, then commenting out the existing one. The dev would leave their name and date each time, because they never deleted the old commented out functions of course, history is important.

They'd also copy the source tree around on burnt CDs, so good luck finding out who had the latest copy at any one point (Hint: It was always the lead dev, because they wouldn't share their code, so "merging to main" involved giving them a copy of your source tree on a burnt disk)

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